...full view before the Convention : — Gouverneur Morris broke out into an eloquent denunciation of slavery. "It was a nefarious institution. It was the curse of Heaven on the Statet where it prevailed. Compare the free regions of the Middle States, where a rich and noble cultivation...

...word " inhabitants." Much, he said, would depend on this point. He never would concur in upholding domestic slavery. It was a nefarious institution....the misery and poverty which overspread the barren wastes of Virginia, Maryland, and the other States having slaves. Travel through the whole continent,...

...to the style and arrangement of that instrument, said, in 1787, " he never would concur in upholding domestic slavery. It was a nefarious institution....curse of Heaven on the States where it prevailed." Luther Martin, of Maryland, held that the continued importation of slaves was " inconsistent with the...

...word " inhabitants." Much, he said, would depend on this point. He never would concur in upholding domestic slavery. It was a nefarious institution....the misery and poverty which overspread the barren wastes of Virginia, Maryland, and the other states having slaves. Travel through the whole continent,...

...nefarious institution, an I th« cur-!e of Heaven on the States where it prevailed. " Compare," said he. " the free regions of the Middle States, where a rich and noble cultivation marks the prosperity aud happiness of the people, with the misery and poverty which overspread the barren wastes of Virginia,...

...system, among all who now desire its speedy and total extirpation. " He never would concur in upholding domestic slavery. It was a nefarious institution....curse of Heaven on the States where it prevailed." * The compromise, therefore, by which the enumeration of the * Madison Papers, pp. 1263-5. 70 " three-fifths...

...taxable." Gouverneur Morris, still more vexed and disappointed, broke out into an eloquent denunciation of slavery. "It was a nefarious institution. It was the...the misery and poverty which overspread the barren wastes of Virginia, Maryland, and the other states having slaves. Travel through the whole continent,...

...Pennsylvania, broke forth in the language of an Abolitionist: " He never would concur in upholding domestic slavery. It was a nefarious institution. It was the curse of Heaven on the State where it prevailed." Oliver Ellsworth, of Connecticut, said : " The morality or wisdom of Slavery...

...Pennsylvania, hroke forth in the language of an Aholitionist ; *' He never would concur in upholding domestic Slavery. It was a nefarious institution. It was the curse of Heaven." In another mood, and with mild, juridical phrase, Mr. Madison " thooght it wrong to admit in the Constitution...

...slaves should not be represented, or exports should he taxable." Gonverneur Morris pronounced slavery "a nefarious institution. It was the curse of Heaven...the misery and poverty which overspread the barren wastes of Virginia, Maryland, and the other states having slaves. Travel through the whole continent,...